The new defence secretary is a serious contender to succeed Theresa May
THE POLITICAL arts are often likened to magic because they depend on the suspension of disbelief. David Lloyd George was nicknamed the Welsh wizard. Harold Wilson was called an illusionist. Penny Mordaunt got an early start in training for her current profession when, as a teenager, she landed a job as a magician’s assistant.
The defence job will let her highlight her distinctive life story. Her father is an ex-paratrooper who named his daughter after a frigate,. Both her parents were struck by cancer during her youth—her mother died and her father recovered—and she became her younger brother’s main carer. She worked her way through sixth-form college .
This is Ms Mordaunt’s second piece of luck in the cabinet. Her previous job, running the Department for International Development , also brought big benefits. It allowed her to burnish her reputation as a compassionate conservative. The department’s guaranteed budget of 0.7% of GDP also provided Ms Mordaunt with a lot of money to spend at a time when other departments were suffering.
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